Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 10:12 pm
Playdead's LIMBO – Action Game Review
Playdead's LIMBO is a Action/Puzzle game from Playdead ApS, first launched in 3rd July 2013.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,651+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Playdead's LIMBO Stand Out
Limbo is an award-winning indie adventure, critically acclaimed for its captivating puzzle design and immersive sound and visuals. Its dark, misty spaces and haunting narrative will stay with you forever.
Apple Design Award Winner.
What the press said:
"Limbo is as close to perfect at what it does as a game can get."
Destructoid – 10/10
"The game is a masterpiece."
Giant Bomb – 5/5
"Limbo is genius. Freaky, weird genius. Disturbing, uncomfortable genius."
The Escapist – 5/5
"Dark, disturbing, yet eerily beautiful, Limbo is a world that deserves to be explored."
Joystiq – 5/5
Winner of more than 100 awards, including:
- Best Downloadable (Gameinformer)
- Best Puzzle Game (Gamespot)
- The Best Indie Game (Kotaku)
- Digital Game of the Year (GameReactor)
- Best Horror Game (IGN)
- Best Visual Arts (Game Developers Choice Awards)
- Technical Excellence (Independent Games Festival)
- Adventure Game of the Year (D.I.C.E. Awards)
- Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design (D.I.C.E. Awards)
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Playdead's LIMBO is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th August 2025
Recent improvements include:
Improvements and minor bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Playdead's LIMBO is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Playdead's LIMBO on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Im only giving this five stars so people will be able to see our review. The game is fun and it has good graphics, but the player is incredibly slow and the puzzles need a fast paced character and this game does not allow for that so it makes the puzzles and the game take longer and longer, and longer to do Personally and we think many people agree with us. This game is very frustrating like really frustrating because the puzzles are so hard and again as we keep repeating the character is so slow. So editors if youre seeing this more people would play this game if the character wasnt so slow and it wasnt so frustrating so maybe fix that.
This is AMAZING and very very difficult,im literally still chapter where you have to float on the box.
Our daddy told us there was going to be a limbo 2 and we were very excited but when is it getting released? We dont know when. And also, can claymation be the art style for limbo 2.
Ised to watch our fav youtuber play it now we can play it ourselves.
Hi! We bought this like a month or two ago? We dont really rember and we love the game! Took forever for us to figure some stuff out lolol but its awesome anyways we were going to our cashapp(what we used to pay) and our card was locked and ii hadnt been on cashapp in a while and we dont rember locking it. But we dont know if the money went thru for this game and we just wanted to make sure you guys acctualy got the money bc we dont know how that would have worked with us being able to play them game even tjo our card was locked . Anyways again just wanna make sure you guys got money from us. Can you even answer that?? We dont know we just dont wanna rip you off cuz we did really live this game. Sorry this makes no sense we also dont know if yall can answer this. Im willing to send yall money in case it didnt go thru so please tell us!! Thanks for creating the game :}.
The story is so mind blowing and the death scenes are so brutal and the puzzles are kinda easy but we love it :).
This is an excellent game! However, chapter 37 seems to be broken. We cant get the arrow to turn on no matter where we hit it. Therefore, we cannot go any further. Support.
We love this game so much. We never usually write these things, but playing this game has made us feel things that Ive never thought we could feel and its to look for somebody who is no longer there with us. We think this game has a good representation of life afterwards and also our own fears and the depression bug that gets us sick leading to.LIMBO we miss you mom and dad.
We played Dead Inside and saw this one, and thought to ourselves we have to play this one . Once again we were not disappointed at all. Its beautiful, the story the scene. Everything to it is a chefs kiss!! Im inlove with these games your making! Thank you for your hard work and thoughtfulness that you put in the game. It is a art piece, a masterpiece.
Having now played through this game twice and loving it both times, we have to leave a review. We love the simple art style and interesting puzzles. Its creepy and captivating! Worth a playthrough for sure.
We love the game its not too gory and its hard which makes it fun and you can really think about it.
Beautiful, Dark, cinematic, Aesthetic, creative.
Amazing art style and ideas we love this game we have been playing it for a long while now if you see pls make more games.
LIMBO has been a total masterpiece of game during the pass of the years and still being our favorite but since Apple launched iOS 17 the performance on limbo in the iPhone 14 has gone down for some reason, there is some random noticeable lag spikes and its not very nice to see, the game just slowing down randomly is not very pleasant but still this game will be in our heart almost ever, please fix this.
Totally worth the $3 and we highly recommend inside as well.
This game is amazing! Great art and things like that. Note: To anyone who is having trouble pushing and pulling objects, you have to make sure hes holding his arms out, then tap and hold to grab.
Brilliant, eager to see next chapters.
Great graphics! Great puzzles! They were challenging but also fun. Overall one of our favorite mobile games and we hope they add more levels soon.
Great game to worsen you anger issues.
We love this game! We make gaming videos and we needed a game to play. So we played this one and it was PERFECT! The graphics and animations are amazing. The sounds and story are flawless. Its challenging and puzzling. This game is perfect. We loved it playdead. Thank you.
This is a good game the only thing wrong with it is the controls, but other than that its a good game.
We've played this game for a few years now and it's incredible. The puzzles are fun and challenging, and the graphics are quite literally better than any game we've ever seen before. Just wanted to say we 10/10 recommend this game to anybody interetsed at all. The money you pay for this game is a small fraction of the immense joy it gave us.
We've played limbo hundreds of times on several platforms and we still enjoy it very much. We would happily play it again if we happen to see it playable on another platform. Thank you devs.
We literally love this game. Very well designed, beautiful scene and even a seemingly main plot. The important thing is they are all connected and melted into one. The puzzles are difficult but still solvable. We didnt check any online walkthroughs and only discussed with our girlfriend when we could not work it out (shes a genius). So we dont agree with those who rated low just because theres no hints. Ive played many other puzzle games, like medulla, father and son, lucid dreams, we would say this one is by far our favorite, even though its lower rated than those mentioned above. We guess our only worry is that for some levels you need to move really fast to pass and our fingers sweat so.
We played Playdeads Inside game first and though it was difficult, but it was easier then this game! In Inside you had hints where to find the Easter eggs by seeing the yellow cords and then trying to get to them. In this game we repeatedly had to use guides to find them all. And, the hidden chapter, there is no way we could complete that but we watched it through with someone on the Steam platform.
LIMBO is one of our favorite games, and we decided to play it on mobile while traveling. About halfway through we noticed that there was no music or ambient sound (cant hear things like rain, or music during many parts). Not sure if this is just an issue with newer devices. Giving it 4 stars because the music has always been an incredible draw, and also because trying to complete the end section without Gravity Jump playing is much more difficult than usual.
The game is fun when you have clever puzzles. Its not fun when you have to repeat tedious segments dozens of times in a row to complete a task with fractions of a second for time. Its fun when a challenge. Its not fun when its designed to just infuriate the user.
We found ourselves frustrated with executing the proper movements and timings rather than actual enjoyment of figuring out a puzzle. Executing the needed movements (e.g., run and jump) was very difficult at times. Maybe some people might like that. Just be aware.
We started to play limbo right after we finished inside because we were absolutely amazed with the graphics and play style but we highly recommend that if you want to play inside play it after you play limbo. We hate to say how disappointed we are with the bugs with jumping. We guess we just feel a bit spoiled after playing inside first. Dont make that same mistake.
Love them game on a console, but game play is extremely difficult in the phone version.
We loved the look and premise of this game, but found it frustrating because the controls wouldnt respond half the time. After 4 times going thru a complex puzzle that involved timing, where we knew what to do but the figure just wouldnt grab a box reliably, we just got frustrated and stopped playing. A shame because it was otherwise a nice game that we would have liked to keep playing. But as it is, its just not enjoyable.
Dont get us wrong its a good game but its WAY too puzzle heavy, and there needs to be MORE CHECKPOINTS we spend 15 minutes on something just to die and have to restart all over again like WHAT.
The game is ok. The strategy is good, but what makes it almost unplayable for us is the controls. The amount of times it does the opposite of what we are trying to do is insane. Makes it very hard. We like challenging, but not because the controls dont work. Thats just a game flaw.
This was fun back when it was actually a game with spiders and evil children and not hours upon hours of moving boxes and falling of cliffs.
Lack of controller support ruins a great game.
This game is by far one of the best Ive played its immersive and beautiful, striking to your visual and auditory senses. Its challenging yet not impossible, making you think and explore. We loved it all the way to the fantastic ending, yet Im sad its over. Brutal and gory at times, but forgiving in the end, we hope theres more to come with these types of games.
This has to be one of the most creepy games we've ever played on our phone, but also fun. It's bit of a challenge on many levels. We have almost beaten this game, but we're stuck now. This though is worth it.
We absolutely loved this game. We love it with a passion so much that we've gone and played it so many times on our iPad and computer. When you play this game you have to play it with headphones because the atmosphere of this game is really what makes it so great. The background and the monochromatic colors make this eerie and almost scary feeling. We liked the controls in the fact that there were no visible buttons on the screen so it's like you're watching the movie but you're in it. The puzzles were definitely confusing and some of them took us a while to get. We were pretty close to looking up a guide at one point but we ended up not doing that and we're so happy we didn't. It felt so rewarding when you beat a puzzle so we encourage you all to not use a guide because we know we could all do it. This is a must play and it was 100% worth the money and we recommend this to anyone who likes to be immersed or anyone who just wants to play a more slow paced game.
Truly deserves a 5 star rating–no grade inflation here.
Add 64-bit version to adapt new iOS. Please. Amazing game.
This game in fun. It is also puzzling, and you can play it for ours.
Buy it for 99 cents. Or $1.99. Or $4.99. It's worth whatever you pay. But it does go on sale.
Love the art direction, the quality of the sounds, and of course the gameplay. If you're into games with smart puzzles, then you'll love Limbo.
We can't say enough good things about this game. It draws you in and captivates you. This is what all apps should strive to be.
We really love this game we just wish we can play inside on mobile too… The game needs better lore, but anyways its one of the best games, you have to have it.
Us encant, su atmsfera e historia (aunque corta y confusa) vali la pena comprar.
This game is amazing! To the sounds and gameplay amazing love it love it love it.
Limbo is the kind of game that you wish would have a sequel this game really was incredible. We like platform games and spooky games so this really meant something to us.
This is a unique game. We love the spookiness.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.4
- Size: 133.89 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Playdead ApS
Last updated: 25th August 2025 | Genre: Action, Puzzle | Developer: Playdead ApS